NASA invited movie star Bruce Willis to the launch of a spaceship that is going to smash into an asteroid to see if we can stop a killer space rock, but he apparently had better things to do.
The Washington Post reported that NASA Administrator Bill Nelson admitted that he wouldn't be attending the launch of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission even though he was invited because of his role in the Michael Bay movie.
Nelson said that they didn't want to miss the connection with the film's theme song.
Miss a thing.
For those who were not blessed enough to have seen the film, the plot revolves around a scenario similar to the real-world near.
In the movie, NASA hires oil riggers who are good enough to blow it to smithereens. It felt like life was imitating art when NASA was reported to be planning a mission that looked similar to the one in Armageddon.
The DART team got so tired of being compared to Armageddon that one of them issued a statement debunking the mythology, which is nerdspeak for the small spaceship that NASA is going to fly into.
Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist and DART team member, said that the idea of a kinetic impactor is not the same as Armageddon. You would gently nudging the asteroid so that it doesn't hit the Earth for at least 20 years.
NASA didn't get that memo when they invited Bruce Willis to the launch tonight, even though he may or may not be a fan of the film.
Scientists saycological Armageddon is due to massive insect deaths.
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